Sorted Founder. Stronger Business.
I help hospitality founders get themselves in order,
so their business stops running them.
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You didn't open a restaurant to write rotas at eleven on a Sunday night. A free hour looking at how far you've drifted from the reason you started, and what to do about it.
The Hospitality Handover
Four weeks to stop being the only one who can.
Four weeks with nine other independent hospitality owners, working on why your phone never stops. It's never the big things. It's the gap on the rota, the broken glasswasher, the comp on table twelve, and all landing with you because nothing has ever properly been handed over.
We build the structures that let someone else take them, then you test it by going unavailable and finding out whether the place holds. You'll finish having handed over your first real responsibility, with protected time in your week that your team defends for you.
10 Years
Industry Experience
20+ Team
Staff Led
Award Winning
Founder
Hospitality
Consultant
Built
From Scratch
Hi, nice to meet you…
My name is Trevor and I work with hospitality owners and senior leaders who operate under constant pressure. My focus is helping them lead with clarity, steadiness and control without sacrificing their health, relationships or sense of self. I believe you can build something meaningful and still enjoy your life while doing it.
My work is grounded in lived experience. I spent nearly a decade building and leading a multi award winning restaurant from the ground up, carrying the weight of people, finances and expectations every day. Now I help other founders build the structure and rhythm that keeps them in control of the business rather than the other way around. Because the goal was never just to survive it. It was to build something worth having.
How I Support Hospitality Founders
The Lead Well Channel
Free. Start here.
Videos for independent hospitality owners. Why the phone never stops, what to hand over first, why the general manager search keeps failing and what it's actually telling you. No sign up, no email, just the thing itself.
The Hospitality Handover
Four weeks with nine other independent owners, working on why the small decisions all end up with you. The gap on the rota, the broken glasswasher, the comp on table twelve. We build the structures that let someone else take them, then you test it by going properly unavailable and finding out whether the place holds.
You'll finish having handed over your first real responsibility, with protected time in your week that your team defends for you.
The Room
My Subscription membership.
A weekly ninety minute call with other owners, the group chat in between, and a separate confidential session each month for your general manager. Plus the structures and tracking that stop the week collapsing back to how it was.
No minimum term. Open to anyone who's been through the Handover.
Does Any Of This Sound Familiar?
Running a hospitality business puts a specific kind of pressure on the person at the top. Not the kind that shows up in the accounts. The kind that shows up in how you think, how you sleep, and how present you are when you finally get home. If any of the following feel familiar, you're not alone, and more importantly, there's a practical way through it.
Loss Of Identity
Constant Mental Load
Your role has expanded so far that who you are has quietly collapsed into what the business needs.
Even when you’re not working, you’re still carrying decisions, outcomes, and responsibility.
Emotional Isolation
Strained Relationships
You’re still performing at a high level, but it’s being powered by endurance rather than sustainability.
You’re competent and decisive, but always responding, rarely feeling ahead or settled.
The business isn’t failing, but it’s slowly costing you presence, energy, and connection at home.
You’re surrounded by people, but there’s no space to speak honestly about the weight you carry.
Quiet Burnout
Reactive Leadership
I’ve Carried That Weight Myself.
I built Ojo Rojo from scratch with no hospitality background, no safety net, and no roadmap. Over ten years I carried the weight of staff livelihoods, finances, reputation and growth, while quietly losing track of where the business ended and I began. I know what it costs when the structure around you doesn't keep pace with the responsibility you're carrying. That experience is the foundation of everything I do.
Ready To Shift The Weight?
There comes a point in leadership where pushing harder stops being useful, and thinking differently becomes necessary. If you feel like you’re at that point, the next step isn’t a commitment, it’s a conversation. A chance to slow things down, get some perspective, and see whether working together makes sense.
